I thought the initial leveling process seemed to really drag out but 88-90 seemed faster than before. I love the new zones and the dungeons are nice and casual so I don't have to only do heroics with certain friends and not others. In Cata I couldn't do heroics early on with a third of my friends who were a bit more casual towards gearing an proper rotation than I was.

Anyway, I haven't played WOW in 4 months or so and am enjoying new content again with friends like I figured I would. Worth the money.

Have been so tempted to buy it but am sticking firm to my quitting of mmos thus far. It looks awesome but I have no confidence that I would be content with casual play and I definitely don't want to sink back into the mire of hardcore raiding!

Haha, well we're in a pretty laid back guild of adults. Most of us have kids and we raid around 12:30am to 3:00am central time. Quite a few second shifters and night owls on the west coast. We don't do much heroic mode hardcore raiding, just plod along at a nice casual pace. But yeah, I can see where that would be a problem.

I've been tempted.. They seem to rope me in with each expansion.. I play for a month, then fall out of it.. I'm trying to say NO, but the fact that the new Monk class has a "Drunken Master" sort of spec.... I don't know if I can stay away from that..

Of all the MMO's I've played WOW makes it the easiest to log in, connect with other people, and do something. I've played a few other games and usually 50% or more of my time is spent organizing a group and replacing members who leave instead of simply playing the game. WOW is very easy to get together with people and run through a wide variety of content with their looking for dungeon and looking for raid features that set up the group and port everyone there automatically instead of waiting for the last 3 people to show up before you start. Or spamming public chat for one more healer. Here you can just que up and go.